Cigar-cutter.



No. 678,6l4. Patented luly l6, I901. E. J. EPSTEIN. CIGAR CUTTER.

(Application filed Sept. 24, 1900.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT Urrion.

EUGENE J. EPSTEIN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CIGAR-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming art of Letters Patent No. 678, dated y 190 Application filed $eptember 24,1900. Serial No. 30,891. (No model.)

To (0Z5 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE J. EPSTEIN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cigar-Cutters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable other-s skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in cigar-cutters, and has forits object to provide a simple and effective de vice of that character, the same being preferably designed to cooperate with a match-box or otherlike receptacle having a hinged cover, whereby upon the closing movement of the latter the cigar-cutter will be actuated.

With this object in view the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the cigar-cutter, in the novelconstruction and arrangement of the cover of the receptacle for cooperatin g with the cigar-cutter, and, finally, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of the device, all as will hereinafter be described and afterward pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings,wherein like characters designate like parts throughout both views, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of my improved pocket case and cigar-cutter, the cover being shown in its open position; and Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the receptacle proper.

A represents the box proper, which is provided with a plurality of compartments a, designed to receive matches, toothpicks, the.

B represents the cover, which is hinged to the box A and is provided upon one end with a lip or projection formed with a detent I), designed to cooperate with a projection a, formed in the box A for holding the cover in a closed position.

0 represents a leaf-spring arranged in box A and designed to cooperate with the cover B in such manner that when the cover is opened it exerts a pressure to keep the same in that position, and when the cover is closed it will exert a pressure to keep the same closed, as is well understood.

D represents a slidable cutter or knife which is arranged in a compartment a", said cutter being provided with aperforation d, which perforation when the cutter is in its uppermost position registers with a perforation 60, arranged in one wall of box A. Secured, preferably, to the upper end of this cutter is a rod or bar D',which passes through alining perforations e and e, formed in horizontal stationary partitions or guide-pieces E and E", respectively, and in the open position of the cover or in the uppermost position of the cutter said bar D projects some distance above the upper edge of box A. This rod D is provided with a pin or lateral projection (1, arranged below the guide E, and in the uppermost position of said rod it rests against said guide and arrests further upward movement of the rod, as is obvious.

F represents an expansible coiled spring which encircles the rod D and is interposed between the guide E and the pin or lateral projection 01 of said rod, its expansive properties exerting a pressure in the proper direction to hold the knife D in an elevated position when the cover B is open.

Cover B is preferably provided with an inwardly-disposed projection or flange Z), arranged on its end farthest away from the hinge portion, said flange I) being so arranged that when the cover is closed it will have contacted with the protruding end of the rod D and have forced the same downwardly against the tension of spring F and will have forced the knife D to its lowered position, thereby causing the perforation in said knife to move out of registration with and pass the perforation 0/ of the box and effect the cutting of the end of a cigar should its end have been passed through the alining perforations inthe box and knife previous to the downward movement of the latter. 7

As will be observed from a glance at Fig. 1, I have formed the compartment a bottomless, as is indicated at ct, the object being to provide an exhaust through which the ends of the cigars which have been cut will pass, as will be readily understood.

From the above it is obvious that the box may be opened to extract a match, after which the end of a cigar may be inserted in the alining perforations constituting the cigar-'- cutter, and when the cover is closed the knife will cut 011 the end of the cigar. It is also obvious from the construction of the box that the slidable knife can be actuated by merely pressing the rod D downward with the finger. I am aware that minor changes in the arrangement, construction, and combination of the several parts of my device can be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without in the least departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Ina combined pocket case and cigarcutter, the combination with a receptacle having a cutting-perforation, of a hinged cover on said receptacle, a slidable knife arranged in said receptacle and in juxtaposition to said perforation, an extension on said knife, guideplates for said extension, and a spring cooperating with said knife, whereby the cover in its closing movement will engage the extension carried by the knife and force the same past the cutting-perforation; substantially as described.

2. In a combined pocket case and cigarcutter, the combination with a receptacle having a cutting-perforation formed in one of its walls, and a discharge'or exhaust opening,

of a cover hinged to said receptacle, a slid- EUGENE J. EPSTEIN.

Witnesses:

WM. H. SCOTT, A. S. GRAY. 

